Shipping from China to Italy

China is one of Italy's largest sources of imports, and the Italian buyers who search for 'importare dalla Cina' and 'container dalla Cina' are often small and mid-sized companies: furniture and lighting retailers, contractors and building-material distributors, machine builders buying components, and wholesalers of electrical goods, tools and household products. Much of that supply sits in Guangdong — Foshan and Shunde for furniture, Zhongshan for lighting, the Pearl River Delta for electrical and metal goods — which is where AGF has its own office. Cargo sails from Nansha, Yantian or Shekou, or from Shanghai and Ningbo, to Genoa, La Spezia, Trieste, Venice, Livorno or Naples and Salerno. Arrival in Italy is where the work is: EU customs duty on the TARIC line, Italian import VAT (IVA) at 22%, and a body of EU product law — CE marking, the General Product Safety Regulation, producer registrations, anti-dumping duties and, for steel and aluminium, CBAM — that decides whether the goods can be sold once they are cleared.

Last reviewed: October 2026

Offices and representative on this lane:Foshan, China

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The China end is ours. Our own office in Foshan coordinates suppliers and factory pickups across Guangdong and beyond, checks goods and packing against the order, supervises container loading and handles Chinese export documentation, so the documents that reach Italy match what is in the box. In Italy we work through WCA partner agents; AGF has no office there. Our partner's customs representative lodges the import declaration in the importer's name and EORI number, pays or defers duty and IVA, and arranges delivery to your warehouse. We prepare the document set from Foshan with the EU checks in mind — the TARIC code, any anti-dumping duty on the line, CE and GPSR details on the product, CBAM data from the supplier for steel and aluminium — and we quote door to door with the exclusions listed up front. Rail is offered only through the Middle Corridor via Kazakhstan; we do not route through Russia or Belarus.

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